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Students attend a class at the Wenchang Middle School in Yuexi county, during a government-organised media tour in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China September 11, 2020. Picture taken September 11, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo

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China's private tutoring firms emerge from the shadows after crackdown

Starting in 2021, a government crackdown known as the "double reduction" policy prohibited for-profit tutoring in core school subjects, with the aim of easing educational and financial...

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Pandemic devours students’ income from private tuition

As the government closed schools, many parents simultaneously suspended private tutors’ services. Photo: Natasha

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Private tutors: No schools, no livelihood